1. My attempt to customize ISO by cutting down on hooks, getting rid of plymouth, reducing default number of packages, services etc to aim fresh install boot within 14 seconds (per my AMD 4800+ 2007 era PC standards) but ISO developed some problems to fail to mount root during boot. I decided to use configs 'as-is' and experiment later.

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These steps are not required. The code initializes these variables with exactly the values given in the conf file.So commented vars have the same init value as if you uncomment them but don't change them.

Especially the $arch variable is only useful to set, if you only build one arch all time.For everything else, you can use the -a switch to specify arch just like branch with -b.

[htpc@j2900 iso-profiles]$ buildiso -p xfce-minimal/ -b stable -qfind: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though pathnames do). That means that '-name `xfce-minimal/'' will probably evaluate to false all the time on this system. You might find the '-wholename' test more useful, or perhaps '-samefile'. Alternatively, if you are using GNU grep, you could use 'find ... -print0 | grep -FzZ `xfce-minimal/''.==> ERROR: xfce-minimal/ is not a valid profile directory!

is this tutorial still relevant for current 2015.12 versions of manjaro? I only ask because in the wiki it mentions "If you do not use the unstable repositories, you need to install manjaro-tools-base and manjaro-tools-iso from the unstable repositories manually" and this tutorials does not mention this step, Before I go and create custom cinnamon iso I want to make sure I am doing it correctly, main reason for a custom iso for me is the installation of extra packages from the manjaro repo to have a perfect iso out of the box without any additional downloading, also custom configs for vlc player ect..

i recommend to download the latest version of manjaro-tools from the unstable repositories.sometimes, older versions (even a couple of days old version) of manjaro-tools do not work anymore. in rare cases even the manjaro-tools version from the unstable repositories does not work and you have to wait or compile manjaro-tools directly from github.

all i want to say is: if manjaro-tools from the stable repositories works for you, then use it. if it does not work, wait a bit or use a more current version.

p.s.: this weekend was a huge change in your manjaro-tools-iso-profiles. definitely use a version of manjaro-tools from yesterday or today. older versions will probably NOT work!